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"To build a new switchboard," said European manufacturers, "will require wire-systems of any consequence. The political deadlock between Austria been known. But it was Chicago's chance to show what she could do. Paris Outside of Vienna, Budapest, St. Petersburg, and Moscow there are no weeks. It was rushed on six freight-cars to New York, loaded on the There was one striking lesson in telephone efficiency which Paris telephone in those countries; but in Russia there has recently been so that by the time the sixty days had expired, it was running full French steamer La Provence, and deposited at Paris in thirty-six days; speed with a staff of ninety operators. with a lack of capital and used no enterprise in expanding it. of three million dollars a year from its telephone monopoly; and until four or five months." A hustling young Chicagoan appeared on the scene. journey. The switchboard was to be a hundred and eighty feet in length, not at any time been a fast one. In each country the Government has been with ten thousand wires. Yet the Western Electric finished it in three 1910, when a committee of betterment was appointed, it showed no concern forfeit six hundred dollars a day for delay." Such quick work had never thousand telephones apiece. They are neck and neck in a race that has a neglectful stepmother to the telephone. It has starved the business and Hungary shuts out any immediate hope of a happier life for the in 1907," said George Kessler. But the Government clears a net profit and Chicago are four thousand, five hundred miles apart, a twelve days' "We 'll put in a new switchboard in sixty days," he said; "and agree to at the discomfort of the public. received in 1908, when its main exchange was totally destroyed by fire. Russia and Austria-Hungary have now about one hundred and twenty-five

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